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23 October 2010 (Vol 341, No 7778)
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"The cuts"
Jane Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c5895 (Published )
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Tricyclic antidepressants for migraine and tension-type headaches
Kenneth A Holroyd, Lars Bendtsen
BMJ  2010;341:c5250 (Published )
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Promotion of cycling and health
Nanette Mutrie, Fiona Crawford
BMJ  2010;341:c5405 (Published )
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Ethnic density and mental health
Helen Lester
BMJ  2010;341:c5252 (Published )
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Changes in university funding for medical education in England
Ed Peile
BMJ  2010;341:c5781 (Published )
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Patients seeking treatment abroad
Helena Legido-Quigley, Martin McKee
BMJ  2010;341:c5769 (Published )
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Palliative care beyond cancer: Good death for all remains distant goal
R J Clearkin
BMJ  2010;341:c5815 (Published )
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Palliative care beyond cancer: Authors’ reply
John Ellershaw, Steve Dewar, Deborah Murphy
BMJ  2010;341:c5817 (Published )
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Palliative care beyond cancer: Irish Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme
David Clark, Fiona Graham
BMJ  2010;341:c5843 (Published )
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Palliative care beyond cancer: Death plans reduce death taboo
Paul S Hensby
BMJ  2010;341:c5800 (Published )
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Palliative care beyond cancer: Spirituality is a weasel word
Jeremy Holmes
BMJ  2010;341:c5801 (Published )
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Media and suicide: Papageno v Werther effect
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Martin Voracek, Arno Herberth, Benedikt Till, Markus Strauss, Elmar Etzersdorfer, Brigitte Eisenwort, Gernot Sonneck
BMJ  2010;341:c5841 (Published )
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Views on lipid lowering: JUPITER seems to be bypassed
Scott W Murray
BMJ  2010;341:c5835 (Published )
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Views on lipid lowering: Author’s reply
Rodney A Hayward
BMJ  2010;341:c5837 (Published )
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From trial to practice: Let’s collaborate
Matthias Lenz
BMJ  2010;341:c5823 (Published )
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From trial to practice: Authors’ reply
Paul Glasziou, On behalf of Iain Chalmers, Douglas G Altman, Hilda Bastian, Isabelle Boutron, Anne Brice, Gro Jamtvedt, Andrew Farmer, Davina Ghersi, Trish Groves, Carl Heneghan, Sophie Hill, Simon Lewin, Susan Michie, Rafael Perera, Valerie Pomeroy, Julie Tilson, Sasha
BMJ  2010;341:c5826 (Published )
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Self management of diabetes: Fallacy in intervention model
John S Yudkin
BMJ  2010;341:c5818 (Published )
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Self management of diabetes: Authors’ reply
M Gillett, S Dixon, On behalf of H M Dallosso, A Brennan, M E Carey, M J Campbell, S Heller, K Khunti, T C Skinner, and M J Davies.
BMJ  2010;341:c5821 (Published )
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Obsolete clinical signs: Time to update
Graham Douglas, Colin Robertson
BMJ  2010;341:c5809 (Published )
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BMA president criticises government for "grotesque" use of word fairness
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2010;341:c5862 (Published )
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US drug company executives could face criminal charges for off-label promotion
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;341:c5808 (Published )
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Government axes a further 11 health quangos
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;341:c5819 (Published )
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Radcliffe should stop doing children’s heart surgery, review recommends
Ann McGauran
BMJ  2010;341:c5863 (Published )
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Government drops plans for generic substitution amid safety concerns
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c5780 (Published )
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Improve chest compressions to reduce deaths from cardiac arrest, new guidance says
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;341:c5794 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;341:c5858 (Published )
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Proposals for revalidation are "too complicated and aspirational"
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c5875 (Published )
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White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c5806 (Published )
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European Medicines Agency tightens rules on conflict of interest
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2010;341:c5902 (Published )
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Criminal trial highlights Queensland’s "archaic" abortion law
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2010;341:c5805 (Published )
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Focus on neglected tropical diseases to take people out of poverty, says WHO
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2010;341:c5855 (Published )
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Medical Council of India calls for president elect of WMA to be denied post
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2010;341:c5825 (Published )
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Hospital layoffs in US are "worst in decade," statistics show
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;341:c5847 (Published )
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Court gives go ahead for 20 states to challenge US health reform
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c5854 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;341:c5829 (Published )
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Professional Regulation: Have we heeded the lessons from Shipman?
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c5711 (Published )
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Alzheimer's disease: What do we mean by Alzheimer’s disease?
Marcus Richards, Carol Brayne
BMJ  2010;341:c4670 (Published )
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Life and Death: The costs of the reverberating bedpan
Iona Heath
BMJ  2010;341:c5541 (Published )
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Medicine and the Media: What’s keeping the Chilean miners down?
Margaret McCartney
BMJ  2010;341:c5860 (Published )
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Tricyclic antidepressants and headaches: systematic review and meta-analysis
Jeffrey L Jackson, William Shimeall, Laura Sessums, Kent J DeZee, Dorothy Becher, Margretta Diemer, Elizabeth Berbano, Patrick G O'Malley
BMJ  2010;341:c5222 (Published )
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Interventions to promote cycling: systematic review
Lin Yang, Shannon Sahlqvist, Alison McMinn, Simon J Griffin, David Ogilvie
BMJ  2010;341:c5293 (Published )
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Understanding the effect of ethnic density on mental health: multi-level investigation of survey data from England
Jayati Das-Munshi, Laia Becares, Michael E Dewey, Stephen A Stansfeld, Martin J Prince
BMJ  2010;341:c5367 (Published )
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Implementation and adoption of nationwide electronic health records in secondary care in England: qualitative analysis of interim results from a prospective national evaluation
Ann Robertson, Kathrin Cresswell, Amirhossein Takian, Dimitra Petrakaki, Sarah Crowe, Tony Cornford, Nicholas Barber, Anthony Avery, Bernard Fernando, Ann Jacklin, Robin Prescott, Ela Klecun, James Paton, Valentina Lichtner, Casey Quinn, Maryam Ali, Zoe Morrison, Yogini Jani, Justin Waring, Kate Marsden, Aziz Sheikh
BMJ  2010;341:c4564 (Published )
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Assessing equity in systematic reviews: realising the recommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Peter Tugwell, Mark Petticrew, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Vivian Welch, Erin Ueffing, Elizabeth Waters, Josiane Bonnefoy, Antony Morgan, Emma Doohan, Michael P Kelly
BMJ  2010;341:c4739 (Published )
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Investigating and managing pyrexia of unknown origin in adults
George M Varghese, Paul Trowbridge, Tom Doherty
BMJ  2010;341:c5470 (Published )
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Safety Alerts: Safer administration of insulin: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
Tara Lamont, David Cousins, Rowan Hillson, Anna Bischler, Martinette Terblanche
BMJ  2010;341:c5269 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Human brucellosis
Brodie Ramin, Paul MacPherson
BMJ  2010;341:c4545 (Published )
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10-Minute Consultation: Macromastia (large breasts): request for breast reduction
K Shokrollahi, I S Whitaker, S R Manning, D Mannasiev, L Y Hiew, M A C S Cooper
BMJ  2010;341:c5408 (Published )
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Karl Julius Ullrich
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2010;341:c5842 (Published )
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Manzur Ahmad
Ejaz Ansari
BMJ  2010;341:c5851 (Published )
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James Somerville Campbell
Colin Boyd, Jenny Campbell
BMJ  2010;341:c5850 (Published )
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Peter Jacques Garwood
John H Clarke
BMJ  2010;341:c5852 (Published )
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Paul McIntosh Orgill Massey
D B Eccleston
BMJ  2010;341:c3833 (Published )
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Lorna Martin McPhail
Lorna Notaras
BMJ  2010;341:c5580 (Published )
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Leslie Thomas Scott
Miles Rucklidge
BMJ  2010;341:c5845 (Published )
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Edward Laverick Stout
Edward Laverick Stout
BMJ  2010;341:c5844 (Published )
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Personal View: An unfortunate way to die
Michael O'Donnell
BMJ  2010;341:c5859 (Published )
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Personal View: Commonly used, easily confused: let’s eliminate hyper and hypo
Adam Frankel, Phillip Vecchio
BMJ  2010;341:c5867 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Why diabetes no longer means death
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c5832 (Published )
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Between the Lines: A pipe dream
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;341:c5839 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Blindness
Ross Elledge
BMJ  2010;341:c5680 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Medical interviews: no further questions
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;341:c5912 (Published )
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Starting Out: Why patients should complain
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2010;341:c5836 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: Recurrent episodes of hemiparesis and aphasia
R Nandhagopal, Abdullah Al-Asmi, G R Arunodaya, P C Jacob, Faisal Al-Azri
BMJ  2010;341:c4674 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Numbers needed to treat and harm
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;341:c5731 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Deep vein thrombosis
BMJ  2010;341:c5873 (Published )
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Nonavinakere P Manjunatha, Yit Yang, Patrick Corridan
BMJ  2010;341:c5787 (Published )
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